silicon lottery

English

Noun

silicon lottery (plural silicon lotteries)

  1. (computing, computer hardware) The uncertainty surrounding microprocessors' overclocking potential, which is typically unknown to a consumer (so that, by chance, some get products that prove able to overclock better than others).
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